An instant New York Times bestseller! “Greg Iles is one of America’s great storytellers." –
Stephen King #1 New York Times bestselling author "A first-rate political thriller." – John
Grisham #1 New York Times bestselling author The final thrilling page-turner in the Penn Cage
series from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Natchez Burning trilogy and
Cemetery Road a Southern thriller about a man—and a town—rocked by anarchy and tragedy but
unbowed in the fight to save those they love. Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez
Burning trilogy Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead his old allies gone
and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world. But Penn’s exile comes to an
end when a brawl at a Mississippi rap festival triggers a bloody mass shooting—an act of
domestic terrorism that nearly takes the life of his daughter Annie. As the stunned cities of
Natchez and Bienville reel antebellum plantation homes continue to burn and the deadly attacks
are claimed by a Black radical group as historic acts of justice. Panic sweeps through the
tourist communities driving them inexorably toward a race war. But what might have been only a
regional sideshow of the 2024 Presidential election explodes into national prominence thanks
to the stunning ascent of Robert E. Lee White a Southern war hero who seizes the public
imagination as a third-party candidate. Dubbed “the Tik-Tok Man ” and funded by an eccentric
Mississippi billionaire Bobby White rides the glory of his Special Forces record to an
unprecedented run at the White House—one unseen since the campaign of H. Ross Perot. To triumph
over the national party machines Bobby evolves a plan of unimaginable daring. One fateful
autumn weekend with White set to declare his candidacy the forces polarizing America line up
against one another fueling explosive racial tension: Black vs. white states vs. the federal
government democracy vs. Fascism. Teaming with his fearless daughter (now a civil rights
lawyer) and a former Black Panther who spent most of his life in Parchman Prison Penn tears
into a political conspiracy behind White’s pursuit of the Presidency and ultimately risks a
second Civil War to try to expose its motivation to the world before the America of our
Constitution slides into the abyss. In Southern Man Greg Iles returns to the riveting style
and historic depth that made the Natchez Burning trilogy a searing masterpiece and hurls the
narrative fifteen years forward—where America itself teeters on the brink of anarchy.
